WEBVTT 00:00.910 --> 00:01.510 Hi there. 00:01.890 --> 00:08.010 In this letter, we're kind of going to revise an opening track, but at the same time revisit it from 00:08.010 --> 00:13.740 this perspective of general principles of the opening and how they can be violated. 00:14.730 --> 00:21.780 The more fundamental principle to me about openings in general, which I like to think about, is putting 00:21.780 --> 00:28.620 yourself beyond the feet before going on the attack, an act of war principle which applies to me greatly 00:28.620 --> 00:29.550 on the chessboard. 00:30.420 --> 00:37.560 If you indulge too quickly in active operations on the chessboard, your tactics are very likely to 00:37.560 --> 00:38.190 backfire. 00:38.460 --> 00:44.790 If your king is in the center, for example, there are quite often going to be unexpected checks and 00:44.790 --> 00:48.120 tactics in general that are going to make your tactics. 00:48.660 --> 00:51.210 Although lucrative, you're going to regret them. 00:51.390 --> 00:53.570 They are often going to backfire. 00:54.000 --> 00:58.450 And another thing you might be tempted to do is cling on to material and the opening. 00:59.220 --> 01:04.950 Now, many of you may have actually started chess recently because of the Queen's Gambit series. 01:05.460 --> 01:10.420 So maybe this is the appropriate lesson in terms of the Queen's Gambit. 01:10.440 --> 01:16.530 I'm going to show you DeFore or in old descriptive notation. 01:16.710 --> 01:20.490 This is pawn to queue for pawns Queen's form. 01:21.850 --> 01:22.860 That's --'s king for. 01:22.860 --> 01:29.490 But this is Ponza Queen's Force that's on the Queen's wall and that's in all the threat if we just say 01:29.490 --> 01:30.700 one nowadays. 01:31.970 --> 01:33.180 So it's abbreviated. 01:33.180 --> 01:37.500 D5 Seaforth So they accept this gambit. 01:37.980 --> 01:39.720 They might not have seen it before. 01:40.020 --> 01:47.820 You play every and the opponent here plays B5, so they're actually not in pieces. 01:47.910 --> 01:50.490 All they're trying to do is retain an extra pawn. 01:51.030 --> 01:54.060 And actually this game is really a misnamed gambit. 01:54.060 --> 02:00.700 It's not really a game at all, but I can do very serious damage to their position from the perspective 02:00.700 --> 02:01.340 of the selection. 02:01.350 --> 02:07.290 I want you to focus in, though, on the lack of peace development and the king still in the center. 02:09.300 --> 02:15.300 Black is going to grossly violate this principle of putting oneself beyond the feet before going on 02:15.360 --> 02:19.020 the attack or acts of operations by clinging onto material. 02:19.410 --> 02:26.400 It might seem like a victory of some sort to be a pawn up and to try and maintain being a pawn up, 02:26.790 --> 02:30.300 but not at the expense of other major considerations. 02:31.080 --> 02:34.320 We see a fall and black plague special effects. 02:35.730 --> 02:41.130 And you'll notice here that also not only these rooks, they're unprotected, but there's actually a 02:41.140 --> 02:44.130 pathway in theory to this rook on that diagonal. 02:44.640 --> 02:46.590 There are possibilities against this rook. 02:47.280 --> 02:51.210 So it's even more a kind of a dangerous situation. 02:51.630 --> 02:53.430 There are so many principles being violated. 02:53.430 --> 02:57.060 It's untrue, but unprotected pieces is one of them. 02:58.110 --> 03:00.220 King Center is another lack of peace. 03:00.220 --> 03:01.200 Development is another. 03:01.560 --> 03:03.180 Being too greedy is another. 03:05.010 --> 03:08.940 So we see why actually playing 1835 Bishop takes. 03:08.940 --> 03:10.500 Now there are two unprotected pieces. 03:10.500 --> 03:15.450 At least this bishop is also now unprotected and subject to tempo game, what we call tempo gaining 03:15.450 --> 03:16.260 a bit of time. 03:17.190 --> 03:23.070 If you gain a bit of time, you can use that time for often converting that into another advantage. 03:23.460 --> 03:32.070 So nice he free the bishop goes to a ASX and now already I hope you remember this maybe there in the 03:32.070 --> 03:34.680 course or somewhere in the course. 03:37.590 --> 03:43.440 But even if you don't try and work out the board sometimes, actually when you try to remember things, 03:43.440 --> 03:50.130 you get them wrong to actually try and concretely work it out on the board to reassure yourself you 03:50.130 --> 03:51.720 don't want to make chess a game of luck. 03:51.750 --> 03:56.700 You actually do want a plan of knowing that, you know, all the follow ups and even all the tricky 03:56.700 --> 04:02.040 stuff the opponent might play that you can't you've you've got it all on the hands, all under control, 04:02.460 --> 04:03.240 your control. 04:03.840 --> 04:05.350 So don't just move randomly. 04:05.380 --> 04:10.980 The head is definitely a move which has a super powerful follow up is the very strongest move in the 04:11.000 --> 04:11.490 position. 04:12.540 --> 04:14.220 And that move is quite a frame. 04:15.480 --> 04:17.580 So it hits that commentated rock. 04:18.870 --> 04:23.580 And we see C6 being one of the desperate TRISTAM. 04:24.690 --> 04:28.950 If the moves, we can just pick up this bishop, for example. 04:31.410 --> 04:33.590 We can just take that bishop that'll be nominated. 04:33.820 --> 04:40.290 So there are liabilities like liabilities or theoretical downsides, more than one in the opponents 04:40.290 --> 04:42.660 position here and now. 04:44.550 --> 04:45.990 Can you spot white place? 04:46.000 --> 04:46.800 I hope you can. 04:47.040 --> 04:47.900 Can you work it out? 04:49.380 --> 04:52.260 You want to check all the forcing moves with high priority. 04:52.260 --> 04:56.010 So check who checks, captures and threats of making one or two. 04:56.850 --> 05:03.000 The forcing moves limit severely, the opponents replies, making it easier for you to calculate ahead. 05:03.330 --> 05:08.700 So had the capture actually Route 86, you can logically expect to recapture. 05:09.180 --> 05:14.160 And now with that Kingma sense of this whole thing backfires because the Kings in a sense, are this 05:14.160 --> 05:14.790 is the whole thing. 05:14.790 --> 05:20.160 Blagden put themselves beyond the feeds before going on to the attack or active operations. 05:20.520 --> 05:27.900 They try an active operation and clinging onto a pawn at the expense of the king still being in the 05:27.900 --> 05:28.320 center. 05:28.330 --> 05:31.500 You know, there's bigger issues in the possession of black. 05:31.920 --> 05:35.520 So black loses material like this and continues after this check. 05:35.790 --> 05:36.900 So even lose the night. 05:37.320 --> 05:38.310 Pure devastation. 05:41.510 --> 05:51.620 So if you look at this game, blank violated every principle in the book, in this section, the king 05:51.620 --> 05:54.040 wasn't put in a safer spot. 05:54.050 --> 05:56.030 Counseling generally is recommended. 05:56.450 --> 05:58.430 Development was disregarded. 06:00.260 --> 06:07.550 The trade off or the lucrative bait for black to make all these violations was trying to cling on to 06:07.550 --> 06:08.130 the pawn. 06:09.860 --> 06:13.370 So the Queen's Gambit is not really a gambit. 06:13.370 --> 06:15.580 That's the big that's the big secret. 06:15.590 --> 06:20.530 If you're a chess connoisseur, by the way, the queen's game, it's not really a real game. 06:20.540 --> 06:22.790 It's actually really quite sound to do this. 06:23.960 --> 06:28.510 And black is in big trouble if they try too hard to cling on to this pawn. 06:28.860 --> 06:34.850 But I just wanted to revisit this trap with you from the other key perspectives. 06:35.770 --> 06:43.210 The art of war principal to try and bear that in mind, you want to develop pieces castle early and 06:43.210 --> 06:50.560 then think about active operations if you do it out of order, something that is lucrative or your opponent 06:50.560 --> 06:59.020 is sacrificing pawns which are lucrative to Monch maybe over months and not return back at the right 06:59.020 --> 06:59.440 time. 07:00.490 --> 07:03.610 For whatever reason, you violated these principles. 07:03.610 --> 07:08.740 You put yourself in that situation of not being beyond the phase. 07:09.490 --> 07:15.400 And if you haven't even done that, that many active operations in this case, all you've done is try 07:15.400 --> 07:16.750 to be a pawn up. 07:20.600 --> 07:25.790 Test is not just being a pawn up, you know, the object of the game is to checkmate the opponents king. 07:27.050 --> 07:32.710 So being a pawn up might be in some way reassuring, but it's a kind of bait as well. 07:33.050 --> 07:40.250 So you pay to the fish, you know, sometimes not that I've done any fishing, but, you know, it's 07:40.250 --> 07:45.800 bait to violate principles of developments with the king still in the center. 07:46.340 --> 07:48.600 So a big violation of the law in this game. 07:48.840 --> 07:53.330 By the way, just for the record, there is another way of playing this, which is less accurate, which 07:53.330 --> 07:54.770 is actually Route 66. 07:54.770 --> 07:57.830 This is less accurate, but still a very nice position for it. 07:58.880 --> 08:00.800 But you don't gain as much material. 08:01.040 --> 08:04.100 If you look at the material gains here, it's not as much. 08:04.880 --> 08:07.190 We scooped up the rook, a knight in the other line. 08:07.940 --> 08:15.350 So on Queena Frame, if they did play in a totally disastrous manner of the Queen Afri and they didn't 08:15.350 --> 08:22.100 just offer the bishop, then, you know, this is a totally disastrous manner when in fact, they end 08:22.100 --> 08:28.390 up losing the rook and then that night after you've really cleared them out anyway. 08:28.910 --> 08:36.530 So this is a good lesson, this sequence, just the underlying principles and philosophies of the opening, 08:37.130 --> 08:38.900 OK, and so much.